Folklore Forensics
Folklore Forensics is a solo, narrative-driven podcast where myth meets true crime. Each episode reinvestigates mythology and folklore from around the world as unresolved cases—reconstructing timelines, examining motive, and analyzing the evidence hidden within the myth.
From familiar gods to lesser-known folktales, these stories are put under the same scrutiny as modern crimes. What details were exaggerated? What facts were lost to time? And what truths might still be buried beneath centuries of storytelling?
You’ve heard the story. Now hear the case.
Folklore Forensics presents narrative reconstructions inspired by myth, legend, and historical context, examined through an investigative lens.
Folklore Forensics
Latest Episodes
The Clytemnestra Revenge Murder (Case File #271)
A king returned home from war expecting celebration. Instead, he walked into a murder ten years in the making.This week, we reopen one of the most infamous domestic killings in classical mythology: the murder of King Agamemnon by ...
The Rumpelstiltskin Child Contract (Case File #131)
A desperate bargain inside a locked spinning room should have saved a miller’s daughter from execution. Instead, it ends years later in a nursery, when a strange man arrives to collect payment for a debt the young queen thought she’d esc...
The Wendigo Executions (Case File #231)
Three hunters vanished into the winter wilderness. And the man who returned with their remains claimed he was no longer human.In the winter of 1879, a hunting party returned to Rat Portage, Ontario, reduced to three survivors and ...
The Boudica Massacre (Case File #189)
Three Roman cities burned. Tens of thousands died. And the woman who led the attack had once been publicly flogged by the empire she destroyed. Entire settlements were destroyed as Roman forces struggled to contain a rebellion led by a w...
The Snow White Poisoning Case (Case File #286)
A teenage queen collapsed beside a half-eaten apple—no pulse, no breath, and yet her body refused to decay. Witnesses reported multiple prior attacks: laces drawn tight enough to suffocate, a poisoned comb pressed into her hair, and a fi...
